Muhammad Afzal Gill | |
Office: | Member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab |
Term Start: | 15 August 2018 |
Term End: | 14 January 2023 |
Constituency: | PP-248 Bahawalpur-IV |
Birth Date: | 1 February 1964 |
Birth Place: | Hasilpur, Punjab, Pakistan |
Nationality: | Pakistani |
Party: | Pakistan Muslim League (N) |
Muhammad Afzal Gill is a Pakistani politician who was a Member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, from 1997 to 1999, again from May 2013 to May 2018 and from August 2018 to January 2023.
He was born on 1 February 1964 in Hasilpur.[1]
He has the degree of Bachelor of Arts and the degree of LL. B. Bachelor of Laws which he obtained in 1995 from the Islamia University Bahawalpur.
He ran for the seat of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of (PML-N) from Constituency PP-224 (Bahawalpur-VII) in the 1993 Pakistani general election. He received 17,984 votes and lost the seat to Riaz Ahmed, a candidate of the Pakistan Peoples Party.[2]
He was elected to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of PML-N from Constituency PP-224 (Bahawalpur-VII) in the 1997 Pakistani general election. He received 39,334 votes and defeated the candidate of PPP, Riaz Ahmed.
He was elected to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) from Constituency PP-274 (Bahawalpur-VIII) in the 2013 Pakistani general election.[3] [4]
He was re-elected to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of PML-N from Constituency PP-248 (Bahawalpur-IV) in the 2018 Pakistani general election.[5] He defeated PTI candidate Zain Bukhari.
In the 2024 General Election, Muhammad Afzal Gill was defeated by the independent woman politician Farzana Khalil Bajwa.[6]